Today I’m going to address the 99ers exclusively. Many among us are wondering why there is not a stronger propensity toward aggressive action among our people. Well, to get to the root of this question there must be a clearer understanding of who exactly we are. When on the rare occasion a 99er story makes it into the mainstream propaganda there is a generality that cannot be ignored. That is a middle aged man and woman standing in front of an $800,000 home with one or two brand new SUVs sitting in the driveway.
Their heart wrenching story goes something like this. The husband says, “I’ve lost my job, exhausted my 99 weeks of unemployment, and the only income we have coming in is my wife’s salary.” The view then changes to one of bare cupboards and a refrigerator with a scant few items contained within. The wife says, “We have gone from an income of $200,000 a year to the $30,000 my job provides. Our house payment is $2000 a month which my income barely covers and we have to dip into our retirement savings to make our car payments.” At this point the woman usually has tears in her eyes.
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